Kioxia and Dell Technologies they mention that they have built a 2U server capable of reaching 9,8PB of storage, something that would have sounded impossible just a few years ago. The 2U server setup combines a Dell PowerEdge R7725xd Server with 40 Kioxia LC9 Series 245,76TB NVMe SSDs and AMD EPYC processors.
Dell is pitching the PowerEdge R7725xd as a platform designed for AI and data-intensive workloads. The server supports up to five 400Gbps network cards, which should help move large amounts of data faster. 
According to Kioxia, matching the same capacity with more common 30,72TB SSDs would require seven additional servers and another 280 drives.
What makes the announcement interesting is that the installation remains air-cooled.
Of course, this isn't hardware we'll ever use in our homes. The 9,8PB drives are enterprise products and come with enterprise pricing. Still, the announcement gives us a pretty clear picture of where high-end storage infrastructure is headed as the adoption of AI continues to accelerate.
Companies are naturally pushing hardware directly into artificial intelligence and hyperscale workloads, where storage is quickly becoming a bottleneck alongside compute.
Kioxia claims that the denser configuration can dramatically reduce power consumption and rack space requirements while maintaining air cooling. The announcement also highlights how quickly enterprise storage capabilities are scaling as organizations struggle to support larger AI models, massive datasets, and increasingly demanding data pipelines.
Although the press releases will range from very select to rare, I said I'd pass...because sometimes the editors hide.
And look, soon, maybe before the next 10 years are over, there will be a new storage medium that will make today's ones look like the cromemco z-2 we see today.